JPH0334960B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a clothing wrinkle removing device that removes wrinkles from clothing using hot air and steam, and more particularly to a clothing conveying device.

In such a wrinkle removing device, by minimizing the entrance and exit of clothing, the radiation of hot air and steam to the outside of the device can be reduced and energy consumption can be saved.

Furthermore, for processing by hot air injection or steam injection within the apparatus, it is better to hang the clothes horizontally, with the front and back sides perpendicular to the direction of travel. That is,
By hanging horizontally in this way, the pitch of the hangers can be minimized and the residence time of the clothes can be extended with a short device, so the device can be compact even though a large amount of clothes are being processed, making it extremely suitable for factory layouts. It will be advantageous.

For this reason, there have conventionally been some wrinkle removing devices in which the entrance and exit portions of the garment are hung vertically parallel to the traveling direction of the front and back of the garment, while the inside of the apparatus is hung horizontally.
However, in this conventional device, independent conveyance chains are arranged at the inlet and outlet portions and inside the device, respectively, and the clothes are sequentially transferred to each chain. In order to transfer the clothes in this way, a head is required, but in order to create the head, the device must be made higher, so the entire device becomes large. In addition, in order to improve processing efficiency, it is necessary to slow down the speed of the conveyance chain in the device and increase the speed of the conveyance chains at the inlet and outlet. There were problems such as frequent accidents.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a conveyance device that can eliminate the problems of clothes falling, which are the problems of conventional clothes conveyance devices, as described above, simplify the arrangement of the conveyance chain, and reduce the size of the wrinkle removal device. That is.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The details of the conveying device of the present invention will be explained below based on an embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, 1 is a wrinkle removing device, and although not shown, this device 1 is provided with a steam injection area and a hot air injection area. An inlet 2 and an outlet 3 are provided.

5 is a guide rail and is a return part a in front of the device 1.
and an entrance part b that enters the entrance 2 from this return part a.
, a processing section c inside the device 1, and an exit section d that exits from inside the device 1 to an outlet 3.

The guide rail 5 has a vertically elongated rectangular cross section as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, and has an endless high-speed chain 6 inside it.
An endless low-speed chain 7 is arranged along the entire length.

8 in FIGS. 1 to 4 is a chain drive shaft rotatably attached to a frame 9 attached to the upper front side of the device 1. A small diameter sprocket 10 is fixed to the lower end of this shaft 8. A large-diameter sprocket 11 is rotatably attached to the upper part of the sprocket, and these sprockets 10 and 11 are inserted into the guide rail 5 through the opening inside the right-angled bend e of the guide rail 5, and engaged with the chains 6 and 7, respectively. .

Reference numeral 12 in Fig. 4 is a transmission shaft installed on the side of the drive shaft 8, and a large diameter sprocket 13 is fixed to the lower end of the transmission shaft.
A small-diameter sprocket 14 fixed to the lower end of the drive shaft 8 is interlocked with an endless transmission chain 15, and a sprocket 16 rotates together with the large-diameter sprocket 11.
and a small diameter sprocket 17 fixed to the transmission shaft 12.
are interlocked by an endless transmission chain 18.

Therefore, when the drive shaft 8 is driven by a suitable drive device, the sprocket 10 rotates at the same speed as the drive shaft 8, but the sprocket 11 rotates at the same speed as the sprocket 14,
It rotates while being decelerated at steps 13, 17, and 16.

In addition, rotatable guide sprockets 20 and 21 are respectively provided inside the right angle bending angles f, g and h of the guide rail 5 other than the portion where the drive shaft 8 is attached. is inserted into the guide rail 5 through the inner opening of the guide rail 5 and engaged with each chain 6, 7, so that each chain 6, 7 runs inside the guide rail 5 while maintaining a constant position. Configure. That is, the high-speed chain 6 is kept in the lower part of the guide rail 5, and the low-speed chain 7 is kept in the upper part of the guide rail 5.

Reference numeral 22 in FIGS. 3 to 6 represents a guide groove provided at the bottom of the guide rail 5, and both sides of this groove 22 form a pair of left and right guide walls 23. Furthermore, this guide groove 22 is connected to the chain 7 in the processing section c in the apparatus 1.
However, other parts are located directly below the chain 6.

Numeral 25 is a rectangular slider that is slidably fitted into the guide groove 22, and a running member 26 that runs on the bottom of the guide rail 5 is rotatably attached to the protruding shaft at the upper end of the slider.

The slider 25 cannot rotate within the guide groove 22, and a hook plate 29 is swingably attached to the lower part of the slider 25 by means of a horizontal shaft 28.

The running member 26 has a square shape larger than the planar slider 25, and a plurality of push pieces 30 for pushing the running member 26 are fixed at regular intervals to the lower part of each chain 6. A plurality of push pieces 31 are also attached at regular intervals to the lower part.

As shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, this push piece 31 fixes an attachment 32 to the lower side of the chain 7, and is attached to this attachment 32 so as to be able to swing around a horizontal shaft 33. Further, the pusher piece 31 is bent in an L shape with its lower end directed downward to the other chain 6,
At the top end there is a stopper 3 that corresponds to the attachment 32.
4 is provided so that the chain 7 rotates in the running direction of the chain 7 from the vertical state, but not in the opposite direction.

The spacing between the push pieces 30 provided on the chain 6 is made large to be suitable for vertically feeding the clothes, and the spacing between the push pieces 7 provided on the chain 7 is made small so as to be suitable for the horizontal feeding of the clothes.

In the above configuration, in the return section a, the traveling member 26 travels while being pushed by the pushing piece 30 of the high-speed chain 6, and the hook plate 29 is oriented sideways with respect to the traveling direction, but there has never been any clothing. .

In this way, the running member 26 is not covered with clothing.
is pushed by the pushing piece 30 of the chain 6 and moves at high speed in the return section a, and when it comes to the right angle bending angle e of the guide groove 22, the running member 26 is pushed due to the difference in pitch circle diameter of the sprockets 10 and 11. It separates from the piece 30 and is pushed by the pusher piece 31 of the low-speed chain 7 and advances to the guide groove 22 at the entrance part b.
is under the high-speed chain 7, so the traveling member 26 moved at low speed for a while from the corner toward the entrance part b.
is pushed away from the push piece 31 by the push piece 30 of the high-speed chain 6 running from behind, and moves toward the entrance 2 at high speed by the push piece 30. Therefore, during the above-mentioned low-speed movement, the clothes hanger is placed on the hook plate 2.
6.

At the right angle bend e above, the high speed chain 6
There is a risk that the pushing piece 31 of the low-speed chain 7, which is moving forward, may be caught up and interfered with by the running member 26 pushed by the pushing piece 30, so the pushing piece 31 pushed by the pushing piece 30 moves forward. Rotate and push piece 3
I try not to interfere with the 0's running. However, when the pushing piece 31 pushes the traveling member 26 forward, the stopper 34 hits the attachment 32 and receives a reaction force so that the traveling member 26 can be pushed forward.

As mentioned above, when the running member 26 is bent, the pushing piece 31
Since the direction of the slider 25 moving in the guide groove 22 does not change even when it is pushed and rotated by the cloth, the clothes are fed vertically at the entrance part b and enter the wrinkle removing device 1 through the narrow entrance 2.

The first right-angled bend f after entering the device 1 (Fig. 2)
The traveling member 26 that has come is the guide sprocket 20,
Due to the difference in pitch circle diameter of the chain 21, it separates from the pusher piece 30 of the high-speed chain 6, and moves along the guide groove 22 of the processing section c by the pusher piece 31 of the low-speed chain 7; Since the running member 26 runs at a low speed, the direction of the slider 25 does not change, and the pitch of the push pieces 31 is small, so the clothing 35 is hung horizontally inside the device 1 and is short. It moves in pitches, and wrinkles can be removed during this time.

When the running member 26 suspending the wrinkle-removed clothing 35 comes to the right-angled bend g in FIG. It enters the guide groove 22 of d, becomes vertically hung, and comes out from the exit, so the hanger with the wrinkle-removed clothing on it is removed from the hook plate 29. Therefore, the empty hook plate 29 moves to the return section a.

As described above, the conveyance device of the present invention has a running member for suspending clothes slidably fitted in an endless guide rail, and a push piece provided on a high-speed chain arranged parallel to the guide rail. It is constructed so that the speed of the traveling member can be changed by using the push pieces provided on the low-speed chain, and the traveling member that travels while hanging clothes is guided by an endless guide rail, which is different from the conventional method. There is no transfer part like in the above device, and therefore there is no drop, so there is no risk of clothes falling.

In addition, an endless high-speed chain and a low-speed chain are provided in the guide rail, and the push piece provided on each chain allows the traveling member to travel at high or low speed, making it extremely easy to select the speed at which the clothes are transported. Therefore, in the processing section, the moving speed of the clothing can be slowed down to perform sufficient wrinkle removal processing using a short processing device, and in other parts, the moving speed of the clothing can be increased to improve processing efficiency. Moreover, the transportation speed can be temporarily slowed down at the portion where unprocessed clothes are hung on the hangers, thereby making it easier to hang the clothes.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a clothing wrinkle removal device using the conveying device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a partially cross-sectional plan view of the same as the above, FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway enlarged cross-sectional plan view of the guide rail, and FIG. The figure is an enlarged longitudinal sectional front view of the chain drive section, Fig. 5 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view taken along the line of Fig. 3, Fig. 6 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view taken along the line of Fig. 3, and Fig. 7 is a part of the low-speed chain. FIG. 3 is an enlarged cutaway side view. 1... Wrinkle removal device, 5... Guide rail, 6
...High speed chain, 7...Slow speed chain, 10,1
1, 20, 21... Sprocket, 22... Guide groove, 25... Slider, 26... Running member, 3
0,31...press piece, 35...clothing, e, f, g,
h...Right angle bending angle.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A wrinkle removal device configured to remove wrinkles by passing clothing suspended from a traveling member for transportation in a horizontal state with the front and back sides perpendicular to the direction of travel through a hot air injection area and a steam injection area. An inlet and an outlet are provided on both sides of the front, a return section in front of the wrinkle removing device, an inlet section from which the return section enters the inlet, a processing section in the wrinkle removing device, and an exit from the wrinkle removing device. An endless guide rail consisting of an exit part is provided, and the traveling member for suspending clothing is slidably fitted into this guide rail, and an endless high-speed chain and an endless chain are provided within this guide rail. A low-speed chain of the shape of a shape is arranged in parallel, the high-speed chain is provided with a pushing piece that pushes the traveling member only at the return section, entrance section, and exit section of the guide rail, and the low-speed chain is provided with a pushing piece that pushes the traveling member only at the return section, entrance section, and exit section of the guide rail. A clothing conveyance device equipped with a pushing piece that pushes a traveling member only in the processing section.